Hi everyone,

LDC 0.16.0 alpha3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3).

Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. There is even an alpha-quality Win64 version available!

As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/numjnaginhfmocbqgddh@forum.dlang.org

Regards,
Kai

On Wednesday, 16 September 2015 at 20:03:15 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> LDC 0.16.0 alpha3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!

Is there anyway to get dub to use this as a compiler so I can test this out?

On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 14:51:32 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 September 2015 at 20:03:15 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> LDC 0.16.0 alpha3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
>
> Is there anyway to get dub to use this as a compiler so I can test this out?

Put the compiler in your PATH, and use the --compiler=ldc2 flag in DUB

On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 14:51:32 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 September 2015 at 20:03:15 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> LDC 0.16.0 alpha3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
>
> Is there anyway to get dub to use this as a compiler so I can test this out?

My dub build is failing with LDC but working with DMD. All I get is this unhelpful error message

$ dub build --compiler=ldc2
Target derelict-util 2.0.3 is up to date. Use --force to rebuild.
Building derelict-sdl2 1.9.7 configuration "library", build type debug.
Running ldc2...
Target derelict-gl3 1.0.15 is up to date. Use --force to rebuild.
Building dgame 0.6.3 configuration "lib", build type debug.
Running ldc2...
Building dungeon ~master configuration "application", build type debug.
Running ldc2...
FAIL .dub/build/application-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-ldc_0-C7E5B672CD1184CE7A0D4F80B1606A44/ dungeon executable
Error executing command build:
ldc2 failed with exit code -11.

How does one debug dub builds?

On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 15:15:33 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> My dub build is failing with LDC but working with DMD. All I get is this unhelpful error message
>
> $ dub build --compiler=ldc2
> Target derelict-util 2.0.3 is up to date. Use --force to rebuild.
> Building derelict-sdl2 1.9.7 configuration "library", build type debug.
> Running ldc2...
> Target derelict-gl3 1.0.15 is up to date. Use --force to rebuild.
> Building dgame 0.6.3 configuration "lib", build type debug.
> Running ldc2...
> Building dungeon ~master configuration "application", build type debug.
> Running ldc2...
> FAIL .dub/build/application-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-ldc_0-C7E5B672CD1184CE7A0D4F80B1606A44/ dungeon executable
> Error executing command build:
> ldc2 failed with exit code -11.
>
> How does one debug dub builds?

dub build --compiler=ldc2 -v

will sometimes let you see more clearly when/where things went wrong.

On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 15:19:07 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> dub build --compiler=ldc2 -v
>
> will sometimes let you see more clearly when/where things went wrong.

Seems to be a segfault in LDC

$ dub build --force --compiler=ldc2 -v

A bunch of stuff for the dependancies

Using direct -l... flags for dl.
Running ldc2...
ldc2 -of.dub/build/application-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-ldc_0-C7E5B672CD1184CE7A0D4F80B1606A44/dungeon -d-debug -g -w -oq -od=.dub/obj -d-version=Have_dungeon -d-version=Have_dgame -d-version=Have_derelict_sdl2 -d-version=Have_derelict_util -d-version=Have_derelict_gl3 -Isource/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/dgame-0.6.3/source/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-sdl2-1.9.7/source/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-util-2.0.3/source/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-gl3-1.0.15/source/ source/app.d source/engine.d source/enums.d source/inputhandler.d source/interfaces.d source/objects/enemies.d source/objects/player.d source/states/endgame.d source/states/game.d source/states/main_menu.d source/surfaces.d source/util/quadtree.d source/util/ringbuffer.d ../../../../.dub/packages/dgame-0.6.3/lib/libDgame.a ../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-sdl2-1.9.7/lib/libDerelictSDL2.a ../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-gl3-1.0.15/lib/libDerelictGL3.a ../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-util-2.0.3/lib/libDerelictUtil.a -L=-ldl
FAIL .dub/build/application-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-ldc_0-C7E5B672CD1184CE7A0D4F80B1606A44/ dungeon executable
Error executing command build:
ldc2 failed with exit code -11.


So I manually copied the command from dub to see what went wrong

$ ldc2 -of.dub/build/application-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-ldc_0-C7E5B672CD1184CE7A0D4F80B1606A44/dungeon -d-debug -g -w -oq -od=.dub/obj -d-version=Have_dungeon -d-version=Have_dgame -d-version=Have_derelict_sdl2 -d-version=Have_derelict_util -d-version=Have_derelict_gl3 -Isource/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/dgame-0.6.3/source/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-sdl2-1.9.7/source/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-util-2.0.3/source/ -I../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-gl3-1.0.15/source/ source/app.d source/engine.d source/enums.d source/inputhandler.d source/interfaces.d source/objects/enemies.d source/objects/player.d source/states/endgame.d source/states/game.d source/states/main_menu.d source/surfaces.d source/util/quadtree.d source/util/ringbuffer.d ../../../../.dub/packages/dgame-0.6.3/lib/libDgame.a ../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-sdl2-1.9.7/lib/libDerelictSDL2.a ../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-gl3-1.0.15/lib/libDerelictGL3.a ../../../../.dub/packages/derelict-util-2.0.3/lib/libDerelictUtil.a -L=-ldl
[1]    45808 segmentation fault  ldc2  -d-debug -g -w -oq -od=.dub/obj -d-version=Have_dungeon     -Isource/

On 9/17/15 8:15 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> Building dungeon ~master ...

Forgive the unhelpful reply, but this line made me happy :)